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[–] StonerCowboy@lemm.ee 14 points 12 hours ago

Sounds like fake ass bullshit to me.

Free Luigi yall ain't got shit no video footage nothing.

"He has read 300 books!!!!!" Is all i see from clowns supporting this regime.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 8 points 11 hours ago

An incompetent pinjob

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

French style revolution is the only solution

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Agreed comrade! Pm me and we will begin the organization of said revolution

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 42 points 20 hours ago

Would have been unbelievable if the US police wouldn’t have a long history of framing people because they are just too buttfuck stupid to do their jobs.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 35 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

I think the conspiracies that he somehow didn't do it are nonsense, however I think his "not guilty" plea and approach to this clearly shows that he is down to put the whole (corrupt) process on full display and make an absolute mockery of the legal system - a system that definitely needs to be mocked.

Unfortunately for the state, they're doing a very good job of supporting him in his cause.

[–] dmehaffy@lemm.ee 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Our system isn't about guilty or not guilty but "beyond a reasonable doubt"

If there is reasonable doubt then someone can't be guilty (or shouldn't) and the burden to prove that is on the prosecution.

I'm not saying it's a good system, or that I agree or disagree but that is our system.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not sure why you’re splitting hairs when you understand what I’m saying

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's like 50% of people's interactions on any given social media platform 😅

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

I'd say it's less than 30%

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 9 points 20 hours ago

Their opinion is a "conspiracy" but my opinion is "right"

Either way the state has the burden to prove he did the crime, I am not sure why you are this confident he did it. I guess fake news shill ops worked on you as intended lol

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 21 points 20 hours ago

Wow. That is just unbelievably sketch.

[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 64 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have worked in private security and law enforcement. I have searched people and their bags at security checkpoints to enter government buildings after 9-11. I've strip searched males in lockup. There is no way a trained cop or even an experienced security guard would miss something bigger than a tube of lipstick in a backpack. Nothing found in the backpack at Micky Ds and then found a handgun after taking it inside of a police station? Sounds to me like the gun was driven to the police station separately to be planted in the bag. A 3D printed gun could be made by anyone, including the cops. #ACAB

[–] ecvanalog@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

They have her admitting on another cop’s body cam that she did a warrantless search. I don’t think she missed anything, I think they just NEED her to have missed it for the prosecution.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

But why make a hero and a martyr? Are they stupid?

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 22 points 23 hours ago

Vs. What?

Letting the world know that you can walk up to someone in the middle of the day and shoot them and get away with it?

We all know CSI shows are over exaggerated, but they give us a feeling of protection

Without a motive or a link to follow. A random gunman is next to impossible to find after they get away.

This way they don't have to make the charges stick but "they caught" the gunman.

Security theater is important

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Because this happens all the time and they are used to just doing it and nothing happening.

I always think about the episode of true detective where they roll with the biker gang. They just do it cool as cucumbers, prep and say "yeah we're going off book." No debate, no explanation, it's just a thing they do.

We all saw how that ended up.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago

It's never made sense to me, TBH. I've just assumed he's being railroaded. In his case the cops just planted a gun instead of drugs like they do to every other person they want to lock up without cause.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 60 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Luigi is innocent. He did not kill Brian Thompson. He is a hero by the simple virtue that he is an innocent young man who was dragged through hell over something he didn't do and is having his life put on the line.

As for who actually did it. I hope he lives a long, quiet life.

[–] caboose2006@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of course Luigi didn't do it. He was flying with me to New Orleans from Nashville at the time of the murder. We got beignets at The Vintage then took a ghost tour of the french quarter.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

And right after that he went to my place thousands of miles away and we played classic Sierra games together. Given he is much younger than me he didn't quite understand late 80s and early-mid 90s gaming that much at first. But my god was he such a good listener! He listened to all my middle age man explanations and how revolutionary all that stuff was at the time with full understanding. He even figured out the Gold Rush door puzzle from the get go! The guy is brilliant! And so very nice, too.

[–] StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still hope this is correct and the real guy starts act 2 during Luigi's trial. Also it's be cool if the next three shells read "super Mario brothers" lmao

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

We need some chubby copycat so they can be Mario.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

It seems more and more everyday that vigilante justice is the only justice against this corrupt corporate tyranny. I think we all wish this wasn’t the case but as my dad used to say you can wish in one hand and 💩 in the other and see what hand fills up first

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I picked up bodies for the Medical Examiner's Office, we had very strict chain of custody rules we had to follow. If the decedent had any valuables on their person (purse, wallet, jewelry, etc), or any medication, we had to write detailed descriptions of every item found (a gold ring is not a gold ring, it's a gold colored ring), then package it all up with the ranking police officer on the scene as a witness who then signs the sealed bag. Even the slightest deviation from this would get us immediately fired, and even prosecuted if surviving family members made any accusations about theft.

In a capital murder case where an alleged murderer/terrorist can potentially walk free because the chain of custody rules weren't followed, how the fuck does this cop still have a job? How is she not being charged with tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice?

Don't get me wrong, I am all for letting Luigi go free, but this is a fuck-up of monumental proportions.

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Why would she be fired for doing what she was told? The fact she wasn’t fired tells you everything you need to know

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I don't disagree, but that means the fuck-up goes higher up the food chain. The NYPD has to know this makes a conviction that much more difficult.

[–] Recent@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

The reality is that they are not above ignoring the law to lock away someone who dared strike against the Oligarchy. Mangione will be convicted no matter how many times they have to put him on trial, even if he is innocent.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think pigs got a call from the top to get this shit done...

This is the best they could muster up it seems, which is rather pathetic. They must have known this will scrutinized but they still could not follow the law.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago

It's almost like a compulsion with the police to be extra scummy, even when it's not necessary.

So they not only have to find 12 people who haven’t been fucked personally or had friends family fucked by their health insurance, now those 12 people have to be blind Pig supporters?

Anything other than a not guilty (or some insanely strong evidence with a perfect chain of custody) verdict for this guy and the fix is in.

If they convict Luigi get the fuck out while you still can, cause the alternative is guerilla warfare against the Gilead states of orange stupidity.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 63 points 1 day ago

Plot twist: good guy policewoman deliberately makes it impossible to prosecute Luigi.

[–] Hikuro93@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Goes to show how much this isn't about Luigi, or even Brian Thompson. It's about the elite sending a message to the other 99%. Think, even if their case against Luigi is rocky at best, all that matters is they can get him to pay for Brian, regardless of whether he did it or not, or where the evidence points.

All that matters is that we the "peasants" get the underlying message:

  • If you kill/harm an elite they'll chase you and make you pay with the full weight of their resources (and emphasis on "resources", not necessarily "law").
  • If you did not kill or harm an elite you're still at risk, because then they'll choose a "peasant" scapegoat to pay anyway.

All that matters is that they get to take their pound of flesh, and that the "peasantry" gets discouraged to fight for their rights as the elite takes, and takes and takes.

Which is why it's so important that regardless of Luigi having done it or not, he should walk free unless there's solid, undeniable evidence of him doing it, like an actual and verified non-deepfake video of the assassination with his clear face on it. And even then he must only face the consequences the law demands, and what others would face in his place for killing the everyday average Joe. The fact that the life lost was an elite should have no bearing on the consequences.

[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Even with that lets be clear Mr. Tompson was responsable for many more deaths for the sake of profit, only deemed not murder because its legal, I do not care if there where 30 videos proven to be genuine, and he said his name when he did it, the jury should nulify. Not because murder is correct, but because well millions died in part because of Brian Tompson, and if the state will do nothing to hold him accountable someone else has to.

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